The Animal Farm

The Animal Farm

Select at least 20 frases where the idea of power is present, or that represents the apropiate choice of words to appeal the audience. Explain five of them. Explain how this five ideas help motivate the rest of the animals. Make reference to the film when necessary. Add a picture related.

1. "Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours?"

2. "Our lives are misserable, laborious and short"

3. "We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength"

4. "...the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty"

5. "No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old."

6. "No animal in England is free."

7. "The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth."

8. " This single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep--and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now a lmost beyond our imagining.


9. " Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever."

10. "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits."

11. "Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin."

12. "You cows that I see before me, how many thousands of gallons of milk have you given during this last year? And what has happened to that milk which should have been breeding up sturdy calves? Every drop of it has gone down the throats of our enemies."


13. "And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this last year, and how many of those eggs ever hatched into chickens? The rest have all gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his men."

 

14.  "Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own."

15. "Almost overnight we could become rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race!"

16. "That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion! I do not know when that Rebellion will come, it might be in a week or in a hundred years, but I know, as surely as I see this straw beneath my feet, that sooner or later justice will be done."

17. "Fix your eyes on that, comrades, throughout the short remainder of your lives! And above all, pass on this message of mine to those who come after you, so that future generations shall carry on the struggle until it is victorious."

18. "And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray."

19. "Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies."

20. "Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. All men are enemies. All animals are comrades." 


Explanations


2. "Our lives are misserable, laborious and short"

This sentence motivate very much the audience, that are all the animals. Here, Old Major highlits how are the animals' lifes, because doing this, he make the animals think about this, and then they have more motives to perform the rebellion.

3. "We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength"

Here, Old Major continues highliting the misserable lifes that have the animals, and the mistreatement of the humans, so the animals start getting more furios and considering the rebellion like a very good option.

9. " Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever."

This sentence is one of the most important. Here Old Major says what they have to do if they want to be happier and leave back their misserable lives that humans give them. If they get rid of the humans, they will be free and happy.


11. "Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin."

In this sentence, Old Major highlits that the humans can't self-sustain them, and that they need animals. So, animals can self-sustain, and they don't need humans for anything, so they are suffering because of humans with no reason, and they must rebel.

14.  "Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own."

In this sentence, Old Major says again that they don't need humans to live. They are suffering because of humans, but they don't need them, the animals can self-sustaini them, and they don't need the tyranny of humans.